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Soft
by Thomson, Rupert
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0747541140
- ISBN 13
- 9780747541141
- Seller
-
Walnut Creek, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. wrapper slightly frayed, wrinkled and sunned. book edges show some wear. no markings. tight binding.. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
"A tight, hypnotic...fast-paced, almost cinematic narrative."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesFormer bouncer Barker Dodds wants nothing more than to flee his violent past for a quaint existence as a barber in London. Waif-like Glade Spencer drifts through life as a waitress at a Soho cafe. And ambitious marketing executive Jimmy Lyle, eager to please his new American boss, devises a revolutionary strategy for introducing a new, orange-colored beverage, Soft!, into an already oversaturated market.In this compulsively readable psychological thriller, these three unlikely souls meet. When leaks start to develop in Lyle's highly original though, illegal strategy, Barker is paid a visit by a friend from his old life, and is soon is presented with an unthinkable dilemma. And the person with whom he now shares a destiny--unbeknownst to her--is Glade. At turns harrowing and darkly humorous, Soft! is a magnificently surreal story, and a social satire of the highest literary order."Stimulating and seductive.... A pulp poetic melodrama."--San Francisco Chronicle"[A] twisted thriller that will keep you turning the pages until four in the morning."--DetailsFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mad Myrtle's Book Haven
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05031804
- Title
- Soft
- Author
- Thomson, Rupert
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket Issued
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0747541140
- ISBN 13
- 9780747541141
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Fiction Satire Capitalism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction Novel;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- Jacket
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